It is possible now, with a considerable degree of hindsight, to say that one thing Trotsky was not able to fully anticipate with his analysis of the degeneration of the USSR, and such potential counterrevolutionary threats, is that post-capitalist relations of production could interpenetrate with capitalist relations for a extended period, and that two variants of such combined and uneven development are possible.
The founding conference of what is now, on a semi-permanent basis, known as Your Party, was a contradictory affair, but the outcome was no split, but the creation of the beginnings of what looks to be becoming a sizeable, working-class left-wing party with potential for growth.
The new issue of Communist Fight journal is out now! Its lead article is an extensive report on Your Party – the new party initiated by Zahra Sultana with Jeremy Corbyn – which held its founding conference at the end of November…
This is the prepared presentation at today’s forum (11th January 2026). A recording of the presentation and discussion is here.
The toll of the Zionist war of extermination on Gaza’s civilian population of the two years of open genocide was horrendous – an essay by two doctors associated with the Lancet (journal of the British Medical Association) and drawing on material from that journal, postulated in September 2025 that the death toll from Israel’s Gaza slaughter was 680,000, more than two thirds of whom were children under 18.
The Consistent Democrats are critically supporting this slate in the CEC Elections for Your Party. The slate embodies a basic set of democratic and socialist principles, if only in outline.
Trump’s attack on Venezuela and the claimed abduction of President Maduro and his wife are outrageous acts of imperialist aggression that must be defeated by all means.
The Ukraine proxy war looks like it is coming to an end. Not through some kind of ‘peace’ agreement, though Trump’s sometime attempts to procure one have put the possibility on the agenda. But through a Russian victory.
Address that a Consistent Democrats spokesperson delivered on 8th November. to an event hosted by the New Communist Party to celebrate the anniversary of the Russian October Revolution of 1917.
US imperialism is reviving the Monroe Doctrine in its pursuit of regional hegemony. It is necessary to defend all the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.
